Culinary or kitchen utensil.



A. B. SPANGLER. CULINARY 0R KITCHEN UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1911.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

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ARTHUR B. SPANGLER, OF AVERY ISLAND, LOUISIANA.

CULINARY OR KITCHEN UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 5, 1911.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

Serial No. 631,471.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR B. SPANGLER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Avery Island, in the parishof Iberia and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Culinary or Kitchen Utensils, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to improvements in culinary or kitchen utensils,and more particularly to an improved rolling pin in -which a number ofuseful kitchen utensils are arranged and combined for ready andconvenient use.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a generally improvedcombination utensil consisting of a hollow pin body provided at one endwith a removably mounted cake cutter forming one head, and containing acylindrical flour container and sifter adapted to be partially withdrawnfor use, said sifter having an opening in oneend for the introduction offlour and provided with a detachable bearing head or cover carrying ahandle forming the opposite handle of the roller pin, said lastmentioned handle being provided with a removable dough cutting knifeadapted to be carried and concealed within an opening or pocket in thehandle.

The invention is adapted to save space in storing the various utensilsand to save time in use by reason of the fact that the several utensilsare combined and used as above explained.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consistsin the novel.

construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafterdescribed, illustrated in some of its embodiments in the accompanyingdrawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure1, is a side elevation of the improved utensil wit-h the parts assembledfor use as an ordinary rolling pin. Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectionalview of the same. Fig. 3, a view of a modi fied form of the same, aportion of the walls being broken away for the purpose of clearerillustration of the parts. Fig. 4, a fragmentary view partly in plan andpartly in section, of a further modified form of same.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all thefigures of the drawings.

The improved culinary or kitchen utensil comprises an open ended hollowcylindrical pin body 1, provided at one end with a removably mountedcake cutter cup 2, and adapted to receive and contain a cylindricalflour container and sifter 3. The cake cutter 2, is slidably mountedwithin oneend of the pin body and is preferably provided with a bearinghead 2*, carrying a bearing pin 4, prdvided with a rotatably mountedhandle 5. The handle 5, forms one of the roller pin handles when thecake cutter is not in use as shown in the drawings, and is used in theordinary operation of the cake cutter cup when the latter is removed.

The flour container is provided with a plurality of openings 6,preferably formed in its cylindrical walls as shown in Figs. 2,

and 4, and is provided at its end with an opening or mouth 7 throughwhich the container may be filled or replenished with flour. The mouth7, is normally closed by means of a detachable bearing head or cover 8,said head or cover belng preferably flanged and threaded upon a threadedflanged portion 7*, about the flour receiving opening or mouth 7, of theflour container. The bearing head is provided with a handle 9, saidhandle being provided, in the present instance, with an opening orpocket 9*, adapted to removably receive and contain a dough knife 10,andas a means for removably securing the knife 10, within the handle 9,said knife is provided with a forked or bifurcated spring handle 10, thefree ends of said spring handle projecting slightly beyond the end ofthe handle 9, as shown. The handle 9, is rotatably secured to thebearing head or cover 8, by means of a bearing pin 11.

If desired, the openings 6, may be formed in the inner end of the flourcontainer, and said openings of the end normally closed by means of apartition plate or disk 12, as shown in Fig. 3; or the cylindricalportion of the pin body 1, may be provided with a plurality of openings13, similarly spaced to the openings 6, in the cylindrical portion ofthe flour container as shown in Fig. 4, whereby the openings 6, and 13,may be brought into and out of registry with each other, and when theopenings are brought into registry with each other the flour may bedistributed by the mere revolution or operation of the rolling pin in anobvious manner and without partially or entirely withdrawing the flourcontainer and sifter from the body of the pin as contemplated in theforms shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of the drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the operation and advantages of my invention willbe readily understood.

Having thus described some of the embodiments of my invention what Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. In a culinary utensil, a hollow pin body, a perforated flourcontainer slidably mounted therein and provided with a flour receivingopening at one end, a detachable head cover normally closing saidopening, a hollow pin handle rotatably secured to said head cover, and adough knife having a forked spring handle resting in said hollow handleand projecting therefrom.

2. A culinary utensil, comprising an open ended pin body, a cutter cupremovably mounted in one end and provided with a bearing pin, a handlerotatably mounted on said pin, a perforated flour container slidablymounted within said pin body closed at its inner end and having aflanged flour receiving opening at the outer end, a bearing headthreaded over said flanged flour receiving opening, and a handlerotatably mounted on said bearing head.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

ARTHUR B. SPANGLER. l/Vitnesses:

L. F. HAYES, H. W. 'BAINES.

t Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G.

